The Spiritual Was More Substantial Than the Material for the Ancients
D.B. Hart, theologian and New Testament translator, explores the NT's strange intellectual world by defining what spirit, soul, and flesh meant to its writers.
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None of Us Shall Enter the Kingdom?
Luís Pinto de Sá, SLU doctoral candidate in philosophy, looks at one of the classics of world cinema, Ordet, a film about the theological virtue of faith.
Ora et Labora: Christians Don't Need Leisure
Paul J. Griffiths, former Duke Warren Chair of Catholic Theology, argues that there is nothing for the Christian between work and prayer in a Fallen World.
Desanitizing Christianity After St. Benedict and After Virtue
Gregory Floyd, Core Program at Seton Hall instructor, gets to the bottom of what Alasdair MacIntyre wanted to say about St. Benedict in After Virtue.
Reason’s Shadow: Romanticism's Impact on Catholic Thought
Kristen Drahos, Postdoc Fellow in the Western Heritage Program at Carthage College, testifies to what Catholicism learned from Romanticism.
Emmanuel Falque: Eucharistic Crossings Between Philosophy and Theology
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair in Theology, delivers a paean to Emmanuel Falque's Eucharistic contribution to the theological turn in French philosophy.
The Anti-Integralist Alasdair MacIntyre
Caleb Bernacchio argues for a new, critically pro-modern, classification of Alasdair MacIntyre.
The Gift of Modernity
Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame Catherine F. Huisking Chair in Theology, distinguishes the cheerers, weepers, and shadow-seers of modernity.
René Girard's Thoughts for a New Nuclear Age
Cynthia Haven, René Girard biographer, chronicles Girard's development of ideas about human nature that are fundamental to humanity's survival.
Further Reflections on Capital Punishment (and on Edward Feser)
David Bentley Hart, ND Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, expands his objections to Edward Feser's theological defense of capital punishment.
The Sex Life of Joseph and Mary
John Cavadini explores the matter by looking at sources both East and West.
Catholic Disagreements and the Catechism's 25th Anniversary
Brian Pedraza, Assistant Professor of Theology at Our Lady of the Lake College in Baton Rouge, LA, on the long roots of current Catholic debates.
The Virtue of Tenderness: David Foster Wallace and the Practice of Love
In 2005 David Foster Wallace gave the commencement address at Kenyon College. The speech, which has acquired the title “This is Water,” still makes the rounds on the Internet regularly.[1]…